‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan shave their heads and go on the lam after revisiting the 1985 “one-for-us” hall-of-famer ‘The Legend of Billie Jean,’ starring Helen Slater, Christian Slater, and Keith Gordon. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Ronak Nai, and Chia Hao Tat This episode is sponsored by State Farm®️. A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.®️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The rewatchables, brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:02.6	You can find the watch.
0:03.7	You sure can, man.
0:04.9	Yeah.
0:06.0	We did 400 movies for the rewatchables.
0:09.0	Our 400th was American gangster last week.
0:11.5	Yeah.
0:12.3	It's football season.
0:13.5	It's the Monday of week one.
0:15.1	All anyone cares about is football.
0:17.3	And Steve Balmer's illegal pay cycles, possibly.
0:21.9	My Green Bank that's going bankrupt, yeah.
0:25.8	How's your aspiration stock?
0:27.8	Is it bad?
0:28.1	You know what?
0:29.3	I think they're saying fair's fair, but who knows?
0:32.9	Well, we decided there is no better chance for a one for us than this week.
0:40.2	And it's a 2B classic. It's gotten the point when i go on toby and by the way this is not sponsored by two b in fact i don't think even
0:45.2	too b even likes us why not i don't know they've never really because you tried to change their slogan
0:50.0	to go to be right uh every time i go there they're like hey legend of billy jean yeah you haven't clicked on this in a while and uh i've watched it probably 700 times when i was a teenager and in college and uh and now we're finally doing it legend of billy jean because fair is fair. Here we go.
1:25.4	All right, CR.
1:27.0	Just, here's my first take.
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